So, Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, who is currently suffering the ignominious fate of being kicked out of the power given her by the Brazilian electorate, is currently involved in the last act of this tragic miscarriage of justice.
She has been given power by the people, through the country's electoral process, but it is not the people who are now involved in depriving her of that power; it is the ruling elite. Those powerful dinosaurs who are the actual inheritors of power in Brazil's ex-slavocratic society, and who still - as they do in many other countries - rule the country as if they are the noblesse and the colonial masters of Brazil.
These people, the elites, act as if they were born to rule over 'their country and its masses, the ordinary people', whom they have such great resentment and disregard for. If they are deprived of power by the country's developing 'democratic' institutions, they are not averse to staging coups, as they have done in Chile, In Argentina, in Paraguay, in Guatemala, etc, etc.
If they are deprived of the necessary support they required from countries in the west, whose economic and geo-political interests their economies are geared up to serve, then, as they are doing in Brazil, they manipulate the organs of government or the constitution, to appear to use the 'the law' to depose the elected government of the country.
These corrupt elites, who, in another time and space, might be compared to cancerous parasites that have taken over the body of Brazil, might have given rise to popular uprisings and revolutionary action by the poor who they are feeding on and oppressing. But the world has moved on, and today might not be the right time for such action; however grave and injurious are the injustices of the elites.
Like the divide between the elites and the other sections of the population, those of us living in the more equitable liberal 'democracies' might find it difficult to appreciate the worldviews of the poor in countries such as Brazil and other similar countries in Americas, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
We might despair by the resort of the poor to violence in their attempts to right the injustices being done to them by the ruling elites, not because their causes lack merit, but because of our fear that the apparently pervasive might and cunning of the elites tend to prevail, while the suffering of the disenfranchised continues to increase.
There is a certain amount of resignation to the prospect of the coup against Dilma Rousseff and her government being successful; it might be one of those situation in which the corruption and guilt of the Senators who oppose her is enough to bind them together solidly; for now. A sort of 'we have to stick together or we are all doomed.'
Yet, although Temur and his co-conspirators might well be successful in removing the Dilma government, without the risk of having to obtain the will of the electorate, by having another election, the struggle of the Brazilian people for social, economic and political justice will continue.
No comments:
Post a Comment